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by gwillen 5y ago
I don't think anybody trusts christel anymore, but I'm not sure why any of the other staff would be implicated in the sale. As far as they all claim, anyway, they were not aware that Andrew Lee believed/claimed he had ownersh
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by gwillen 5y ago
Well, from the current front page of freenode.net: https://web.archive.org/web/20210520103526/https://freenode.... "The rumors of a 'hostile takeover' are simply untrue - I've been th
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by gwillen 5y ago
From what I'm seeing, everything I'm active in is moving (including my own channels) -- the old ones aren't being shut down yet, mostly because people want to give libera.chat a few days first to make sure it doesn't suf
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by gwillen 5y ago
I think libera.chat has successfully positioned itself as the clear successor to freenode; all the projects I'm a part of on freenode have moved / are moving there. I'm sure it's not perfect, and it's been having so
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by gwillen 5y ago
I have heard debit-only cards in the US referred to as "ATM cards" occasionally, but that was a few years ago. I think if an account belongs to a minor child, it may not be possible to get a regular debit card (that also works wit
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by gwillen 6y ago
> The bug reports I liked least were the ones that complained about some pervasive, completely disabling flaw permeating the entire browser from top to bottom. Invariably this was that the browser "was slow," but startup crashe
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by gwillen 6y ago
Did they move? When I installed Thunderbird on my Windows 10 machine recently, I noted that Maildir was available as an option, and switched to it. But it seemed like mbox was still the default, and certain behavior seems to be glitchy on M
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by gwillen 6y ago
> well built, engineered and maintained Fortunately for Starlink, there's not much worry about Comcast having any of those things.
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by gwillen 6y ago
Ethereum hasn't even migrated to "Ethereum technology". They have been claiming for years that they are planning to move from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake. Maybe someday they will. My take on this: I remain unconvinced tha
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by gwillen 6y ago
> can't this be solved by putting the "burden of PR" on the PR-er? A long checklist of "I have read this" and "I have tested this" should raise the PR bar high enough to make the code review cost worth
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by gwillen 6y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the value of this gimmick, but my impression is that dealers get big kickbacks to push it. When I bought my car, I tried to opt-out of Phantom Footprints (as I did with every single overpriced extra), and they e
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by gwillen 6y ago
I suspect I know the cause of this -- there was a change to Google Maps not long ago, related to how it computes destination points when your destination is a large area (such as a large park.) It used to try to take you to the official add
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by gwillen 6y ago
I often describe the sensation of trying to read ML-generated text as "feeling like I'm having a stroke". Phrasing not original to me obviously, but I like it. Although I've never had a stroke myself, so I can't say
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by gwillen 6y ago
As one of the people who gave a counterexample, let me just say that I don't support people downvoting you, and I would much rather live in your reality than this one. (Thank you for treating your employees better than most.)
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by gwillen 6y ago
Pardon my French, but I don't give a flying fuck about how deliverable someone's "campaigns" written by their "creatives" are to the "clients" on their "targeted lists". I want to know how I
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by gwillen 6y ago
I was hired right out of school by Google in 2007. I was absolutely presented with various contract documents on day 1 to sign. In fact, I was not even given paper copies of them; I was supposed to click my agreement in an intranet signing
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by gwillen 6y ago
I'm curious -- do you host your own email, or use a lesser-known email provider? I am increasingly seeing failures where sites seem to be blackholing outgoing email, I suspect based on the destination domain, and unaware that they are
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by gwillen 6y ago
Regarding problem 2: It's hard to know what exactly you're seeing, but be aware that the output of "git log" is only pretending to be linear; it's really a tree/graph. ("git log --graph" can help, but
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by gwillen 6y ago
Ahh, but the key problem which leads me to swear and make generalizations is this: Not everyone is an idiot; but idiots don't know they're idiots. (Also, to be clear, I don't think that people who unknowingly transmit backgro
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by gwillen 6y ago
Let me summarize my take on the 'don't mute' advice in this article: * Is the call 1:1 or extremely small? If so, it's down to the preferences of the people in the call. Otherwise, for larger calls: * Are you in a quiet
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by gwillen 6y ago
> no grocery store I can't tell if you forgot about Ava's, or if you've never actually _been_ to downtown Mountain View, or if you only consider chain supermarkets to count.
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by gwillen 6y ago
For the curious who want more information, I found a paper discussing the general issues involved in "low-field" MRI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmri.26637 For their purposes,
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by gwillen 6y ago
This is an easy and popular bug to write. The ZIP file format (which is used for JAR files as well), which puts the header at the end, is truly the sin that keeps on giving. A consequence of this choice is that ANY file concatenated with a
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by gwillen 6y ago
As another commenter mentioned, this is all done modulo some large prime (or, apparently, in some cases, a carefully-chosen composite number with a large prime factor), so 2^y^x=B^x=R=A^y=2^x^y mod p. (Note that mathematicians use "mod
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by gwillen 6y ago
I will be very curious what the minimum area requirement for the game is. I can't imagine redirected walking being very convincing in the Quest's minimum 6.5 x 6.5 ft square.
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by gwillen 6y ago
Sideloaded apps now give multiple scary warnings about the Terms of Service: See e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/4487.pn... . "May put your account and device at risk"
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by gwillen 6y ago
Beat Saber is the big hit, which I love; but if you're really into rhythm games I would also take a look at Audica, from Harmonix. If you are into puzzle-light exploration in a beautiful space, I would highly recommend Fujii as a hidde
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by gwillen 6y ago
My recollection, assuming it's the same machine I'm thinking of, is that it wasn't reserved for our team; rather, we left a do-nothing job permanently allocated to it, in order to prevent some poor other sucker from getting t
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by gwillen 7y ago
This is a kind of bizarre hitpiece. As noted on the previous post linked below: (1) Chrome -- the far and away most popular alternative -- is worse in every way, and (2) PIA, the company publishing the post, is owned by a (former?) malware
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by gwillen 7y ago
I am excited to have been one of the pals who helped with this! It's an awesome project.

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